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Alternate Site Testing Links The following articles and research papers provide additional information about alternate site testing. Forearm blood glucose testing in diabetes mellitus. Clinical Impact of Prandial State, Exercise, and Site Preparation on the Equivalence of Alternative-Site Blood Glucose Testing. Glucose Measurements Using Blood Extracted from the Forearm and the Finger (201 KB PDF) Physiological Influences of Off-Finger Glucose Testing (529 KB PDF) FreeStyle Phsyiology and Alternate Site Testing (161 KB PDF) FDA Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Toxicology Devices Panel Meeting on Alternative Site Testing Whole-Blood Glucose Testing at Alternate Sites: Glucose values and hematocrit of capillary blood drawn from fingertip and forearm Rapid changes in postprandial blood glucose produce concentration differences at finger, forearm, and thigh sampling sites. Alternate Site Testing: First Do No Harm A study of forearm versus finger stick glucose monitoring Blood glucose concentrations of arm and finger during dynamic glucose conditions Comparison of glucose levels in capillary blood samples obtained from a variety of body sites Alternate site glucose testing: a crossover design Alternative site blood glucose testing: a multicenter study.

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